PRIZMASPACE- Ozan Adam

Couple of weeks ago I went to an exhibition. The artist had put together his lastest works where he talked about how life is destructive and productive. He talks about how the city changes over time due to political and cultural differences. 

Inspired by Foucault’s philosophical approaches on Rene Magritte’s well known painting, the second part of the exhibition, entitled ‘It is not a pipe’, makes use of digital, analog video and film formats while focusing on the perception of process, product and time. As the title’s Turkish translation “Boru Değil” also makes a reference to the slang expression meaning ‘’the work is not easy’’, the exhibition concentrates on both definitions and symbolisms while focusing on the process of creating meaning and the relation of the signifier to the signified. Highlighting the difficulties of video art, installation, art and film creation, the artist also creates an allusion to pipe lines, social, political and economic connections and the communication networks by making use of the word ‘pipe’s double meaning in Turkish.

Ozan Adam was born in 1976 in Ankara, Turkey. He studied art and cinema in New York, worked in film production, advertising, commercials, media, stage construction and design industries. His body of diverse artwork, which consists of text, design, illustration, painting, sculpture, animation, film, video and installation, has been exhibited in solo and collective exhibitions around the world. He has been teaching film, video production and experimental cinema courses at universities and institutions since 2001. His film “Zymotic Amaurosis” was awarded with the Special Jury Award in the 14th International Ankara Film Festival (2002) and “The Two Names of A Testimony About The Execution of A Happening and A Suitcase Full of Broken Records“ was awarded as the Best Experimental Film in the 17th International Ankara Film Festival (2006). Many of his films and his artworks have been selected and screened by international festivals, galleries and museums.

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Launched in September 2014, Istanbul’s new cinematic project space, PRIZMASPACE will host filmmaker and contemporary artist Ozan Adam for its second director exhibition program, PRIZMA SCREENING #2. Having been selected to Istanbul Film Festival’s New Turkish Cinema selection in 2014 with his latest feature film “For The Blinds”, Ozan Adam will showcase his latest feature film, his award-winning short films, video works and installations between 5 – 26 March 2015 at PRIZMASPACE.



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What? a new blog?!

Well yes, sorry to say but I need to keep my thoughts clean and organized. It’s always nice to have your life organized and easy to look back at things. Well I hope you will enjoy your time reading about me as I enjoy writing about it.

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Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist. She worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues,folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.

The sixth child of a preacher's family in North Carolina, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist Her musical path changed direction after she was denied a scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, despite a well-received audition. Simone said she later found out from an insider at Curtis that she was denied entry because she was black. So as to fund her continuing musical education and become a classical pianist, she began playing in a small club in Philadelphia where she was also required to sing. She was approached for a recording by Bethlehem Records, and her rendering of "I Loves You, Porgy" was a hit in the United States in 1958. Over the length of her career Simone recorded more than 40 albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974.

Her musical style arose from a fusion of gospel and pop songs with classical music, in particular with influences from her first inspiration, Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied with her expressive jazz-like singing in her characteristic contralto voice. She injected as much of her classical background into her music as possible to give it more depth and quality, as she felt that pop music was inferior to classical. Her intuitive grasp on the audience–performer relationship was gained from a unique background of playing piano accompaniment for church revivals and sermons regularly from the early age of six years old.